New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-17
WOMEN WHO MAKE THEIR MARh.
HINTS OF SOME FEMININE TRAITS AND
CHARACTERISTICS.

HINTS OF SOME FEMININE TRAITS AND
CHARACTERISTICS.
The friendship of Madame Patti, the great singer,
for little Marion Foster tho crippled artist is wen
known. The little artist in her rolling CHAIR III
one of the wings of the Metropolitan Opera House
stage the other night, whore she said that she had
been invited to come by the prim ts;u do1 ma
bring her good luck and have been hero every
night but the first, when was sick and could not
come They are certainly having good luck "he.uer
brought it or not hope did"
Tho beauty of the floral tributes that have been
paid to Patti during her engagement at the Metropo
tan Opera House was remarked upon the 0ther night
in the presence of Lieutenant Foster OF the United
States ship OF war Minnesota when he said Amerl
scarcely know what II to tender floral ribues
TO a great artist I saw Patti Naples in 1873 when
flowers were shOwered upon the stage until she $1,000
knee-deep in them IL was already the occasion Oh
her farewell tour. which she has continued 10 make
every year sncc. The Neapohtans went wild over her
the last night of her engagement. 1t was literally
impossible to buy n that day in Naples. Iney
had all been engaged for Patti There were enormous
and g0rgeOu, floral design, sent uD to her on the stage
and then 10 wers ia little bunches and single roses
were showered down upon the stage. She tried for
time to receive each of the large pieces Ill person out
presently 1t became impossible Ihey hnany nau W
come upon tao stage with rnkcs to clear the MOWERS
away The lepde, of the orchestra was almost Ourieo
and the front OF the stage below the fooghts looked
like a bank OF flowers"
There is some gossip a6oat just about the sue
cess attending women Who take " Flyers IN wan
Street. Brokers say that as rule women nave ieSs
idea of hat they to do in the way OF spe"uatng
or buyug securities than men have They 90 INTO IL
blindly ana trust the broker who is generally more
careful in giving them advice than with his own sex
broker show cd yesterday list of securities that ne
was about to deposit in the strong box OF sale
deposit company for one OF hs feminine CUSTOMERS
70 nm hn r
IL Il keeper of furnished room house uptown whose
first Wall street investment was made about two
years ago on n capital OF y 900. There Is medium
sized. blacl eyed, ack-haired, active woman seen
frequently about Wall Street in these days whose
volatility OF tosguc in discussing coal and IRON proper
tic, ia the Northwest aud the New Sohth 10 frequently
demonstrated. who ia said TO have cleared forty or
hfty Thousand dollars in the last year. sue ~
brokcrrss" who carries her office IN her satchel anu
looks Tor customers among ner own acquaintance.
In talking about women who have dabbled in specu-
lation a story il trld OF Southern woman whose nus
baud went wild the Tennessee Coal ana Iron
stock last December just before 1t had tho big drop
The wife had brought her husband q considerable
uropcrty nj their marriage nnc genera isy turned IL
all over TO his disposition. Her Judgment was
against the buying of the stock In which ne had be-
com, Interested. She had fair bank account oil her
own aud when she found that he Nas deterpined 10
buy the stock at high price she drew out every
dollar she had and sold the stock short lie came
long "a the moral law and disposition TO commit
suicide IL was quickly changed 10 rejoicing wheh
his wife showed him note iron hef Drosr no.
ing closing OF her transactions win proh aouoo
the amount which her husband had lost. lie bas
sworn of stock rpceuia alton and they sai!ed NOT
long ago pleasure trip to the Bermudas'
An attorney VITO was conyersant with the facts as
telling the other day OF episode in the life oil ten
eral John &. Fremont in which Mrs. Fremont showed
weak side no at all like her subsequent career IL
WAS about the time of the sale OF the jenerals MARI
posa grant IL very valuable tract oil iandb ut
eno1mbcred by general debts to an amount exceedingly
$500 900. An arrangement had been msdo Win tue
General and his creditors 10 pay 90 cents on The
dollar and IL began to look as it he would emerge
from his financial diff ules with property that would
make him a fortune OF upwaid OF "a million dollars
In the midst of the pending settlements Mrs Fremont
desired TO give party aud tor that purpose sought TO
make n loan OF 81. 900 from some of her friends. l
was refused because they knew OF the condition OF
things with reference the settlement and thought 1t
un wise that patty should be given She replied to
them that she could get credit for the entertainment
because she would tell the tradesmen that the iehefa
had settled with his creditors and was millionaire
In order effect her purpose che appealed 10 james
Gordon Bennett TO publish q paragraph In The
Herald " concerning tho transactio" with inc
creditora IL I'D quite the contrary effect from what
she expected tor the persons Interested IN the mater
would not completes the bargain aud it was two or
three months before they codld be induced to return
TO the Negotiations IL il said that when the Marposa
lie had upward of q million and quarter OF dollars
in gold. lie was urged by Gs friends, who know his
niortunate tendency to speculate. TO create trust
fund tor himself OF million dollars, but he insisted
ON the contrary course and within year or two he had
lost halt million dollars through Que firm alone. lie
has been exceedingly unfortunate in oil his spccua-
tons.
a woman who has made her mark in New-fork Chy
is Mrs. Eliza Archard Connor OF the American Asso-
cated Press whose writings are widely known TO INC
readers OF the newspapers which are supplied with
what is known TO the newspaper world as patent
plate matter" This is by no means small portion OF
the American public and Mrs. Conner has weekly
audience which might be coveted by a metropolitan
newspaper She takes pride in ths fact that she Is an
Ohio woman aud recently deli, cred an address at the
Ohio Society rooms Ohio women, where she sad
among other things that it related OF her ances-
tors that when the barred their arms and struck
the axe into the the w0meh planted the gardens
and dug the potatoes There was tradition she SAID,
that whle the rested at noon time the never
wearicl women prepared the meals and washed the
dishes AS she uttered this statement We l-known
young bachelor of the club called ont THAT Is the
kind o. woman Tor whom have been looking" Tho
exclamation was received with an uproar OF applause
which NEARLY took the thread out OF Mrs Conhors
remarks